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Song: Automatic Flowers
Artist: Our Lady Peace
Album: Clumsy
Tabbed By: L.A.
I do believe the bassist (Duncan Coutts, on this CD at least) uses a 5
string. This is the tab for a 4 string, so if you tune the E string down to
D you'll be set.
16 = slide down (or up as the case may be) till you reach the fret to be
played on the next higher/lower string
Intro 1 2
G|-------------------------|----------------|--------|
D|*-----------------------*|----------------|--------|
A|*-4-4/16p15h16---------*|-/14-14-14p13-9-|--------|
D|---------------7777-9999-|----------------|-4-4/16-|
Prechorus "no-one..." "her find..."
G|-----------|-----------------|-----------------------|
D|-----------|*---------------*|-----------------------| bar with repeats x3
A|-----------|*------------/11*|--------------14-14-14-|
D|-7777-6666-|-4-4/16--6-6/----|-7-9-11-14-9/----------|
Chorus 1 2 3
G|-------------------|-------------|-------------|----------|
D|-------------------|-------------|-------------|----------|
A|-------------------|-7h999-7h999-|-7h9999-7--4-|-7h9999---|
D|-0000-777-6h7-9999-|-------------|-------------|--------0-|
2nd Verse (no bass on first verse)
G|-----------------------|-----------------------------------|------------------|
D|-----------------------|-----------------------------------|------------------|
A|-----------------------|-----------------------------4h6-6-|------------------|
D|-0000-3333-1111-4444h6-|-0000-0h2h3-33-3h5h7-777-6-6-------|-000-0h2h3=p2h3-3-|
|------------------------|
|------------------------|
|------------------------| into prechorus repeats
|-6-777-7h8-6-6-11h13-13-|
2nd Chorus-play first chorus with 4th ending:
G|-------------|
D|-------------|
A|-------------| and ending #3 again
D|-4-4-4p3h4p3-|
Interlude 1 2
G|--------------------|-----------------------|-------------|----------------|
D|--------------------|*---------------------*|-------------|----------------|
A|-(9)/11-11-11-11-11-|*---------------------*|-7h9999-7--4-|(7)/9-(7)/9-9-7-|
D|--------------------|-0-0-0h4h6h7-7-7-6h999-|-------------|----------------|
3 4
|-----6h9-9-6-4-|-------------| |-----14-----16-|
|-2h4-----------|-7h9-----7h9-| into prechorus |---------------|
|---------------|-------------| repeats again |---------------|
|---------------|-----999-----| then-> |-777----999----|
The outro is just the chorus played over and over with the various endings.
There are some little fills in there, if you really want them drop me a line
and I'll tab them. dumbassLA@users.basstabarchive.com
Taken from BASSMASTA.NET - http://www.bassmasta.net
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zakk Wanna Be |
#1 by zakk at May 11, 1973 at 8:44 PM EST |
| I just think that it's about this girl who is really depressed. She's been depressed for a really long time, and she had painful memories from gr. 4. When she opened her book full of automatic flowers, the memories came flooding back and made her feel worse. She dwells on bad things. Etc. etc. | |
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Tyler Wanna Be |
#2 by Tyler Epperson at Mar 19, 1977 at 11:56 AM EST |
| davidspoon is so right. my mom is an alcholic and this song really speaks to me like that. good job davidspoon!! | |
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Jake "the insan Average |
#3 by Jake "the insane bassist" Martinez at Jan 18, 1984 at 2:26 AM EST |
| I think its about a girl, who for some reason has suffered an immense loss, and she feels that it was because she wasn't good enough (couldn't afford the view' might not be entirely literal). She's basically holing herself in, and not leaving her apartment, but because of this reluctance of outside she's blocking the one thing that could make her happy and she doesn't realise this ('she can't see straight'). The pop up book is about looking to something that made her feel good once for an automatic cure, and its not happening, and she's going insane trying to figure out why it can't make her laugh any more. Though I could be completely off the mark as I may have put a tad of a personal spin on that. | |
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matt Average |
#4 by matt lenardson at Aug 9, 2000 at 4:19 AM EST |
| I think this song is about a very lonely girl. Read the lyrics and you should be able to find many obvious supports for my thinking. Flowers represent love and relationships, but the 'automatic' basically nullifies that -- the flowers are given without feeling? :P | |
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Lucky Sick Wanna Be |
#5 by Lucky Sick at Jan 1, 2001 at 7:06 PM EST |
| My ex-girlfriend's name is Sara....and that bitch is crazy | |
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Cushley Wanna Be |
#6 by Cushley at Apr 8, 2005 at 11:29 AM EST |
| i dunno i never could figure out this song really... i agree w/ that its a very lonely girl but i dont get the pop up book from grade 4 part... or automatic flowers i couldnt think of how flowers could be automatic but someone said because their givenin w/o feeling i agree there now.... | |
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K. Average |
#7 by K. G. at Jul 12, 2005 at 4:44 PM EST |
| i always thought "automatic flowers" was reffering to drugs, and that "they wont do". someone please fill me in | |
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Braxton Lead Player |
#8 by Braxton Overby at Jul 14, 2006 at 12:53 PM EST |
| its about a girl whos looking at a book and it has pop up flowers in it... and then years later she opens the same book only to find out that the flowers are still there.. and they pop up when you open the book, they don't just open automatically. | |
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juleon Average |
#9 by juleon at Jul 14, 2006 at 9:56 PM EST |
| It is about a girl, who obviously is very upset.Haven't got a clue why though. And can i just say that the automatic flowers refer to the flowers in the pop up book. When she opens the book up, the flowers 'automatically' pop up. | |
